sábado, 27 de octubre de 2018

October 29, 2018

KARCHER STAFF BLOG


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Kudos
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  • Thank you to Eric Sulik, Wendy Zeman, and Sue Bekken for all of your work and efforts for the extended advisory and Cooper/Waller activities this week.  At times this is a thankless role as there is so much planning and behind the scenes that they are needed to finalize and take care of so please take time this week to thank them for their time and commitment to our advisory curriculum and to our students!  Thank you!  
  • Thank you to all staff for a truly amazing afternoon with our Cooper and Waller elementary students.  Our students were very prepared, responsive to their elementary kiddos, and did a fantastic job representing Karcher Middle School.  Thank you all of your efforts!!!  
  • And kudos to our staff or your efforts during our full day inservice.  Thank you for ensuring you worked diligently on your Essential Skills throughout the morning, for doing a great job participating during the safety simulation, and for your planned work that you all used in the afternoon.  Our hope is having larger chunks of time to do our necessary work is utilized and appreciated.  
    • Though the simulation was a difficult simulation to have to participate in, as it is not something anyone really wants to do, you all did a great job and were very responsive in each scenario.  If there is anything you have thought about after the debrief please do not hesitate to talk to Ryan or I about it.  
Video this week...

Great video that makes us reflect and think about the whole child and to work to be proactive in our approach to behaviors and not always reactive with consequences... 

(Link to the video)

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Information/Reminders
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  • Arrival time reminder for certified staff:
    • Just a reminder that your expected arrival is no later than 7:00am.  At 7:05 please be cognizant of being in the hallways by your classroom to assist with monitoring students both in the halls and in your classrooms.  
  • Those who are utilizing Skyward to clock in and out each day:  
    • Please remember to clock in at your scheduled time in the morning and again at your scheduled time at the end of the day.  If you needed to stay for any reason past your schedule time you need to indicate the reason in the comment section within Skyward.  
    • Those who are full time need to punch in and out for lunch time daily.  There might be days here and there that your lunch break is cute short due to assisting students but overall there should be consistency with your time sheets.  
  • Remind101 
    • We would like everyone to sign up for our Karcher Admin Remind101 account.  The purpose for this account is to be able to get messages to all staff members in the event we would need to for Karcher.  We will be using this for our fire drill this coming week so that everyone understands how it works.  
    • To sign up please text @247693 to the number 81010
    • You do NOT need to download the Remind App. After you sign up, you will receive messages from Karcher Admin via text message. You can also reply to the number once we send a message, which will only go to admin, not the entire group. This method will be used in emergency situations, drills, or necessary information to communicate with staff.  

This week:  
  • Huddle week this week for extended advisory.
    • Students will rotate to their academic teachers throughout the week for Huddle time. Special education teachers should join their co-teaching partners throughout the week. 
    • Students in iTime reading intervention will be pulled or with Fulton, Riggs, or Ebbers throughout Huddle time this week.  
    • Huddle time is a great time to give students time to catch up on their work and ensure they understand their iReady data and grades so far.
    • Below are the hours for the rotation within our academic classrooms:

    7th grade
    8th grade
    Monday
    1st hour 
    2nd hour 
    Tuesday
    3rd hour 
    4th hour 
    Thursday
    5th hour 
    5th hour 
    Friday
    6th hour 
    7th hour 
  • Monday, October 29 - Technology Committee Meeting from 3:45 - 5:15 in the Tech Lab.
  • Tuesday, October 30 - PBS Trick or Treat!
    • Brad Ferstenou and Stephanie Rummler will be coming around to classrooms in the afternoon.
    • Stephanie will be coming to 7th grade classes 6th hour.
    • Brad will be coming to 8th grade classes 7th hour.
    • For one KCB, students can draw from a deck of cards to receive a trick or treat.  If they draw a number card they receive a piece of candy.  If they draw a face card, they will receive a "trick". 
    • If you have any small, random items you have in your room they could use for a trick to hand out to students.  So... if you have anything small to donate please give your donated items to Brad or Stephanie by Tuesday before noon.  
  • Wednesday, October 31 - iReady Training for Academic, Special Education, and Interventionists. This training will be just for Karcher and by grade level.
      • HERE is the bell schedule for Wednesday. The reason for the schedule adjustment is to reduce the number of aides needed and allow every teacher to still have time with their classes.
      • We will have 2 subs coming in to cover the ALLs throughout the school day... so... they will cover all of the ALLs for both grade levels. This has already been taking care of for the day.
      • There will be no extended advisory on Wednesday due to the need to change the schedule.
      • Training times:
        • 7th grade will be from 7:30 - 10:30
        • 8th grade will be from 11:30 - 2:30
        • Location: 21st Century Lab
  • Friday, November 2 - 7th grade Field Museum field trip. 
    • Questions see Katherine Botsford or Brad Ferstenou
  • Saturday, November 3 - BASD Referendum meeting @ the District Office @ 10:45am.
  • Tuesday, November 6 - End of term 1!
  • Tuesday, November 6 - Start of iTime rotation with the set groups given to you based on iReady data.
    • These groups will stay set through December 14.

Pictures from the week!
Cooper/Waller visit!





































I had a meeting with other middle school principals in the area and we met at the new 5-8 middle school in Muskego. Below are some pictures of their spaces. They are a house concept so the classrooms were centered around pods throughout the building.






Picture after Safety Simulation



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